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They retail for around $500. But that’s not the point. You can get them from and store them anywhere. You pay for the convenience of not lugging one around. You have the flexibility of walking between destinations, not always having to use the scooter.

In 5 years both sharding and Plasma would be implemented on Ethereum. NASDAQ would probably run its own Plasma chain or sidechain and wouldn’t be beholden to the main chain’s throughput.

Can this study be done with the cow feed just being plain old grass? There’s lots of anecdotal evidence showing grass fed cows don’t produce much methane, thereby making pasture raised meat environmentally friendly. Yet there doesn’t appear to be many studies on it for whatever reason. Everything is focused on corn-based cow feed.

Yep that’s what I mean.

“I also personally look for engineers with a collaborative attitude rather than a competitive one.” -Leah Culver

This is a highly underrated attribute. Crucial to getting anything done effectively in a team.

You could deploy a smart contract that has an array of all censored/blacklisted peeps which other clients can choose to use.

I did a similar proof of concept a while ago [1]. It outputs an emoji for an image or video frame based on facial emotion.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/shanev/c70099b3305e71c6a1232a42029f7...

I made a text-only ephemeral social network as a side project a while ago. It deletes messages after 24 hours, and warns if a screenshot is taken: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blink/id1086509452?mt=8.

There was a social network like this called Famspam, but it pivoted to something called Github.

Sometimes the violation is driving 5 miles above the speed limit on a highway.

Nice execution! I made something similar a few years ago, except it generated a playlist of previews from iTunes with an option to connect Spotify. It worked by finding all venues within a certain radius from you using the Foursquare API, and correlating that with the JamBase and Songkick APIs. It was a bit ahead of its time because not enough people had Spotify, and their catalog wasn’t big enough to cover artists coming to some of the smaller venues. I might still own the domain rockout.fm if you want something a bit more catchy.

I have a friend who got an entire sleave of an MC Escher piece. I asked him what it meant and he said: “I dunno but it looks cool right?”. I think that’s the way to go if you don’t want to regret it later. Just get nice looking art that has stood the test of time.

Up the irons.

> Yeah, but then Google, Facebook et al started throwing six-figure salaries to CS graduates to steal your data and, well, that's what happened to hackers' ethics and technology morality.

I think it's more than the money. Many engineers view FB and Google as kind of a rite of passage in tech. Ex-Googlers and ex-FBers are highly regarded. Your startup is safe hiring them because they have been vetted already.

I turned down an opportunity to interview at FB in 2008 when they were just starting to build their native mobile team. I was even offered a free flight from Chicago and was told I'd get to meet Zuck. Some of us have refused to work for companies that exploit user data and have always put ethics first. But "person who refused to interview at Google" doesn't sound as nice as "ex-Googler" to most.

I was one of the earliest successful indie iOS developers. I've had my apps featured on Apple TV ads and billboards, and they've had tens of millions of downloads. The days of being able to do that are long gone. You'll have a few breakout hits every once in a while like HQ and Houseparty, but the amount of marketing needed to get there often outweighs development costs. There's a few big players and there's not much benefit to the long tail anymore unless you have an expensive niche app. I've recently switched to being a blockchain / Ethereum developer and there's a ton of conferences and 2-3 events a week in New York. Marco should title this "The end of indie iOS conferences".

Swift has kind of taken a life of its own outside of just iOS. There's a few big Swift conferences each year, even ones specific to functional programming. I'm also excited for its prospects on the server.

Their GitHub repo hasn't had any commits in 3 months.

First thing I noticed too. Quite sneaky how they missed that. Speaking of headers, really want to use this one next: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2823.

For those looking for an alternate hacker-friendly solution, you can make your own smart remote with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. I made an IR blaster that replaced all my IR based remotes [1]. I’m sure you can make one for RF ones as well. And they’re not too hard to integrate with Amazon Echo or Home Kit.

[1]: http://www.instructables.com/id/Amazon-Echo-Controlled-IR-Re...

1) http://www.drumkit.co

2) Built in Objective-C with a custom audio engine in C++. Audio latency on Android was horrible at that time, MS was probably worse. It would have been a terrible app on those platforms if I did port it. This was before cross-platform toolkits existed. It needed to be a native app with low level access audio to hardware. I wasn't going to make an app where you tap a drum and wait 100ms to hear a sound.

Yup. It wasn't worth it at that time.

My app was doing really well in the App Store, and Apple was featuring it on billboards and TV ads. As an indie developer, it was the best thing I could have hoped for. I didn't want to mess up that relationship with Apple in any way. Being anti-MS throughout my youth probably didn't help either.

Can confirm. Microsoft offered me $10k and free help with development to port my app.

Wasn’t bison a huge part of Native American food though? I haven’t seen it represented at any Mexican or Central American restaurant I’ve been to.

Sioux Chef! Perfect name for a Native American restaurant.

Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy thinks we should flip the classroom [1]. Students watch high quality lectures at home given by the best instructors on the topic, then do "homework" in class, with the teacher being there for assistance.

Sounds like a worthy approach to me. The problem is, how can you get a school board to adopt something like this? Who leads the effort? How can you implement changes to such an entrenched system?

[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rei...

Naval Ravikant's tweetstorm today is highly relevant to this [1]:

1/ If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.

2/ Schools survive anti-educational behavior (i.e. groupthink) due to symbiosis between institutions that issue and accept credentials.

3/ Employers looking past traditional credentials can arbitrage the gap. @ycombinator made $Bs doing this for young founders.

4/ The more meritocratic an industry, the faster it moves away from false credentialing. I.e., the MBA and tech startups.

5/ A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet & leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system.

6/ Until then, only the most desperate and talented students will make the leap.

7/ Even today, what to study and how to study it are more important than where to study it and for how long.

8/ The best teachers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best peers are on the Internet.

9/ The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.

10/ Educational credentials are badges that admit one to the elite class. Expect elites to struggle mightily to justify the current system.

11/ Eventually, the tide of the Internet and rational, self-interested employers will create and accept efficient credentialing...

12/ ...and wash away our obsolete industrial-education system.

[1]: https://twitter.com/naval/status/912220382450524160

There is a better way. Look up the work of farmer Joe Salatin and ecologist Alan Savory.

You're the 4th or 5th person to recommend this book to me. Guess I have to read it now :)

What’s the value in raw vs cooked vegetables? I thought cooking makes their nutrients more bio-available. Do you really eat tubers raw? I can't imagine eating a potato raw. Our ancestors even always cooked them.

My research led me to Prescript-Assist: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0049NRWHS. Here's a study validating it for IBS patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16117982.

I also recommend a gut bacteria test like uBiome to see how it alters your composition. Do a before test, then another one after a month or two of use.

What to do varies because human bodies, environment, and gut bacteria composition varies. It's more than diet. Inflammation due to lack of sleep, stress, or smoking is also a huge factor.

That said, the biggest factor for me was eliminating dairy. I used to drink more than a gallon of milk a week. I saw results after about two weeks of eliminating dairy. My dermatologist was shocked. She refused to believe there's any correlation between diet and eczema. Patches didn't start completely going away until I also eliminated wheat. They are basically gone when I regularly eat fermented foods, take a soil-based probiotic, and get good sleep.

You might want to try an elimination diet (starting with dairy, then wheat/gluten). If you want something more structured check out an auto-immune paleo protocol like Whole30. I wish that existed when I got started. Had to learn the hard and slow way on my own.